Twitter Is…

Since Twitter is the current social media darling, I thought I’d record a few thoughts I’ve had about one of my favorite online tools.  I’ve had the privilege of using Twitter for two years, and each and every person I’ve followed or had follow me along the way has taught me something new.  So here we go.

Twitter is…

• a place for friends
• a news outlet
• a place to share your greatest failures & your most stunning achievements
• an attention getter
• a publishing platform
• a customer service tool
• a researcher’s dream
• vulgar
• the ace up your sleeve
• brilliant
• a new entertainment channel
• a social network
• a micro-blogging platform
• a marketing tool
• your community
• overwhelming
• 24x7x365 (always on)
• a level playing field for your ideas
• a sounding board for your thoughts
• a comment reel for your new book
• your starting place for your online excursions
• the place for your organization to learn about it’s customers
• a multicasting instant messenger
• a game changer
• a PR tool
• a messaging infrastructure
• a simple way to share & trade information
• can be inane
• is faster to publish to than anything else
• is where you go to learn
• your online “water cooler”
• a conduit into the lives of others
• a conduit into the idea stream of smart people

I’ve got a lot more input on what Twitter is than I could fit in this post, so I’ll work on fitting that into another format of some type.  What is Twitter to you?  I mean, what has Twitter brought to your life that you can’t believe you lived without before you discovered it?

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